How to get first and last day of the week in JavaS

Question

I have today = new Date(); object. I need to get first and last day of the current week. I need both variants for Sunday and Monday as a start and end day of the week. I am little bit confuse now with a code. Can your help me?

Answer 1

        //get start of week; QT
    function _getStartOfWeek (date){
        var iDayOfWeek = date.getDay();
        var iDifference = date.getDate() - iDayOfWeek + (iDayOfWeek === 0 ?  -6:1);

        return new Date(date.setDate(iDifference));
    }, 

    function _getEndOfWeek(date){
        return new Date(date.setDate(date.getDate() + (7 - date.getDay()) === 7 ? 0 : (7 - date.getDay()) ));
    }, 

*current date == 30.06.2016 and monday is the first day in week.

It also works for different months and years. Tested with qunit suite:

        QUnit.module("Planung: Start of week");
    QUnit.test("Should return start of week based on current date", function (assert) {
        var startOfWeek = Planung._getStartOfWeek(new Date());
        assert.ok( startOfWeek , "returned date: "+ startOfWeek);
    });

    QUnit.test("Should return start of week based on a sunday date", function (assert) {
        var startOfWeek = Planung._getStartOfWeek(new Date("2016-07-03"));
        assert.ok( startOfWeek , "returned date: "+ startOfWeek);
    });

    QUnit.test("Should return start of week based on a monday date", function (assert) {
        var startOfWeek = Planung._getStartOfWeek(new Date("2016-06-27"));
        assert.ok( startOfWeek , "returned date: "+ startOfWeek);
    });

    QUnit.module("Planung: End of week");
    QUnit.test("Should return end of week based on current date", function (assert) {
        var endOfWeek = Planung._getEndOfWeek(new Date());
        assert.ok( endOfWeek , "returned date: "+ endOfWeek);
    });
    QUnit.test("Should return end of week based on sunday date with different month", function (assert) {
        var endOfWeek = Planung._getEndOfWeek(new Date("2016-07-03"));
        assert.ok( endOfWeek , "returned date: "+ endOfWeek);
    });
    QUnit.test("Should return end of week based on monday date with different month", function (assert) {
        var endOfWeek = Planung._getEndOfWeek(new Date("2016-06-27"));
        assert.ok( endOfWeek , "returned date: "+ endOfWeek);
    });
    QUnit.test("Should return end of week based on 01-06-2016 with different month", function (assert) {
        var endOfWeek = Planung._getEndOfWeek(new Date("2016-06-01"));
        assert.ok( endOfWeek , "returned date: "+ endOfWeek);
    });
    QUnit.test("Should return end of week based on 21-06-2016 with different month", function (assert) {
        var endOfWeek = Planung._getEndOfWeek(new Date("2016-06-21"));
        assert.ok( endOfWeek , "returned date: "+ endOfWeek);
    });
    QUnit.test("Should return end of week based on 28-12-2016 with different month and year", function (assert) {
        var endOfWeek = Planung._getEndOfWeek(new Date("2016-12-28"));
        assert.ok( endOfWeek , "returned date: "+ endOfWeek);
    });
    QUnit.test("Should return end of week based on 01-01-2016 with different month and year", function (assert) {
        var endOfWeek = Planung._getEndOfWeek(new Date("2016-01-01"));
        assert.ok( endOfWeek , "returned date: "+ endOfWeek);
    });

Answer 2

This works across year and month changes.

Date.prototype.GetFirstDayOfWeek = function() {
    return (new Date(this.setDate(this.getDate() - this.getDay())));
}

Date.prototype.GetLastDayOfWeek = function() {
    return (new Date(this.setDate(this.getDate() - this.getDay() +6)));
}

var today = new Date();

alert(today.GetFirstDayOfWeek());

alert(today.GetLastDayOfWeek());

Answer 3

var curr = new Date; // get current date
var first = curr.getDate() - curr.getDay(); // First day is the day of the month - the day of the week
var last = first + 6; // last day is the first day + 6

var firstday = new Date(curr.setDate(first)).toUTCString();
var lastday = new Date(curr.setDate(last)).toUTCString();

firstday
"Sun, 06 Mar 2011 12:25:40 GMT"
lastday
"Sat, 12 Mar 2011 12:25:40 GMT"

This works for firstday = sunday of this week and last day = saturday for this week. Extending it to run Monday to sunday is trivial.

Making it work with first and last days in different months is left as an exercise for the user

Answer 4

var dt = new Date()  //current date of week
var currentWeekDay = dt.getDay();
var lessDays = currentWeekDay == 0 ? 6 : currentWeekDay-1
var wkStart = new Date(new Date(dt).setDate(dt.getDate()- lessDays));
var wkEnd = new Date(new Date(wkStart).setDate(wkStart.getDate()+6));

This will be useful for any date scenario.

Answer 5

Although the question is seeming as obsolete I have to point out a problem.
Question: What will happen at 1st January 2016?
I think most of the above solutions calculate start of week as 27.12.2016. For this reason I think, the correct calculation should be like the below simply;

var d = new Date(),
    dayInMs = 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24,
    weekInMs = dayInMs * 7,
    startOfToday = new Date(d.getFullYear(), d.getMonth(), d.getDate()).valueOf(),
    todayElapsedTime = d.valueOf() - startOfToday,
    dayDiff = d.getDay() * dayInMs,
    dateDiff = dayDiff + todayElapsedTime, 
    // finally
    startOfWeek = d.valueOf() - dateDiff,
    endOfWeek = startOfWeek + weekInMs - 1;

Answer 6

Nice suggestion but you got a small problem in lastday. You should change it to:

lastday = new Date(firstday.getTime() + 60 * 60 *24 * 6 * 1000);